St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-07
Railroad Building and Farming in Vari-
GUS Parts Of Dakota Taking Work.
ingmen From Fargo.
Attorneys and Court Attaches Flocking
to Yankton, Where the Supreme
Court Sits May 10.
The Whole Red River Valley Intently
Watching the Exploration For
Natural Gas at Farqo.
Ant-Saloon Workers Canvassing Cass
County By School Districts
Other Interesting News.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
FARGO, May 6.-There is an unprece-
dented scarcity of laboring men and
mechanics in this region of late. The
bonanza farmers especially are troubled
to get the needed help. In town there
are not even tramps and jail-birds
enough to do service on the streets.
Applications from other towns for car
penters and builders could not be met.
This dearth of labor is chiefly due to the
unusual demands of the new railroads..
The Manitoba extension takes some.
thousands and the Aberdeen g. Bis
marck a thousand or more. New land
being put in cultivation makes con-
siderable drafts, and the unusual
call for labor. There is, however. no in
creased demand for the classes who
wear store clothes on week days The
growth OF the small towns in the North
IS as rule much greater in proportions
than the larger ones. This is a good
sign, as it indicates the filing up and
Improvement of the country.
There is quite hegira of attorneys
and court attaches TO the supreme court,
which sits at YanktOn May 10. The
CasS county tax title case is the most
heard. n. S. Tyler brings suit for the
recovery of 500 paid on tax titles on
railroad lands. The United States SUI
preme court reversed the decision of the
territorial courts, and held that the
title remained in the government
until the road had complied with
all the conditions, and therefore
the taxes were improperly imposed.
The county authorities refuse to refund,
hence the suit. The result, it is esti-
mated, will involve the repayment of
some $4,000 in CaSS and about as much
in Barnes and less amounts in several
other counties.
All the North, and especially the Red
river valley country, is intentfy watch
ing the exploration for natural gas about
Fargo, as it will determine the question
for the whole region. If found, as hoped
and believed, gas holes will soon be as
numerous as the towns in the North.
There is surprise and Impotence at the
delay, and Jangling over the matter by
the rustlers at Fargo, who are so slow
to verify their faith with their money.
A company has secured from the city
exclusive privileges, and as it fixes its
stock figures among the millions. it
is lntlmated that some parties want to
make too much money. And so in these
| discrepancies the goose that is to lay the
golden eggs is kept off duty. But the
| money will no doubt in some Way soon
be forthcoming and the work will go on.
If sufficient and permanent supply of
gas is found the widest experience of
any Ohio town will be tameneSs i'm COM
parison with what will be witnessed.
The local option or anti-Saloon move
ment, started III the west part of CaSs
county, have sent out agents who have
visited Fargo and other towns and Sc
cured signers to call for county con-
ventiOn to be held at CaSSelton. Nav 1S.
to devise methods to get the work on its
/ feet. Provision will be made for the
canvass of every school district in the
county for names to the petition to
the county board, which must
contain one-third of the voters and be
presented sixty days before the election.
There is little question that the 1.64S
names-one-third of the last vote-win
be secured, but the enigma they propose
to tackle is how to convince a reluctant
| county board that the names all repre-
sent bona fide voters. The surest solu-
ton proposed is thought to be to secure
Murphy or some other temperance
evangelist to convert the county board.
Little Roadway with the movement will
be made i'll the river towns as long as
the Fargo breWerieS turn out such
pdldldDlC pIuuucl dllu OILY I0e nauSeOuS
river furnishes drinking water.
Arbor Day was much better observed
than in any former year. In the public
schools each grade in the several depart
partments planted its trees. The police.
officials and citizens all improved the
occasion, and the day and ground could
not have been better suited to the work.
The little Methodist paper at Fargo
has bloomed out into the eight-page
Methodist Weekly Herald. excellent in
Typography and paper, and aspiring to
leadership in the UNCONVENTIONAL field
of the Northwest. Rev. S. w. Ingham
is the editor.
EX-Gov. Pierce spent some time in
Fargo the past week on his way to and
from Grand Forks, where for some rea-
son he was specially anxious to display
oratorical ability, and made the anti
Irish coercion meeting the occasion. If
furnished an inspiration that he had
not felt elsewhere. The governor. If
was also noted, was not inspired to keen
an appointment to speak in behalf of y
college at Fargo, still he refused to be
Interviewed upon college matters.
The new hotel has not yet started
from the brickyard, but there are assur-
ances that it is coming this season GER
tainly. 1t is said ground will be broken
Saturday.